Analysis of Cradles
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
Along the quay, the great ships,
that ride the swell in silence,
take no notice of the cradles.
that the hands of the women rock.
But the day of farewells will come,
when the women must weep,
and curious men are tempted
towards the horizons that lure them!
And that day the great ships,
sailing away from the diminishing port,
feel their bulk held back
by the spirits of the distant cradles.
Scheme | AXBX XXXX AXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011 1101010 11101010 10110101 1011111 101011 01001110 010010111 011011 10011001001 11111 1010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 391 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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